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Continent: South America
Rite: Roman (Latin)
Type: Diocese
Area: 11,892 km²
Population: 892,200 Catholics (90.1% of 990,672 total) (2020)
Statistics: 74 parishes, 966 missions, 162 priests (98 diocesan, 64 religious), 440 lay religious (99 brothers, 341 sisters), 15 seminarians (2020)
Ecclesiastical Province: Porto Alegre
Neighbouring Dioceses: Montenegro (↙), Passo Fundo (↖), Vacaria (↑), Criciúma (→), Osório (↘), Novo Hamburgo (↓)
Depends on: Congregation for Bishops
Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio (May 26)
Present Prelates
Ordinaries
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as of 2022.05.10
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